Colony East Cover Reveal

Colony East

by Scott Cramer

available June 2013

I like the look of Colony East, I know 

I can't wait to read it!

Here's the link to my Review of

The Toucan Trilogy, Book One 

Night of the Purple Moon

And...

Free Kindle Version of Book One

Night of the Purple Moon 

is available on  

Oct 17/18! YaY!!

US/India: http://amzn.to/HtWh7C

UK: http://amzn.to/UFBiCt

Find Author Scott Cramer on Facebook!

Review: Night of the Purple Moon

I was sent a review copy of Night of the Purple Moon by the author Scott Cramer in exchange for an honest review. I read this short book (177 pages) very quickly. It is a YA dystopian which I'm really into right now. Like any other dystopian there were parts of this book that were quite disturbing but it was well written and it took me on an emotional roller-coaster. (I got a little teary eyed at least twice and thought I was just going to all out bawl at the end. LOVE when a book can do that!) It was tragic and if a ray of hope was given it quickly extinguished. In fact, when you thought things couldn't get worse, they did. I thought Night of the Purple Moon was very GOOD, very sad, and very short. (And I wanted to keep reading after the final page!) 

Basically Night of the Purple Moon is about what happens when the Earth passes through the tail of a comet. This would be pretty cool because the comet/space dust stuff is supposed to turn the moon purple but it has an unforeseeable side effect. The space dust causes an epidemic, killing anyone who has gone through puberty in a matter of hours. So that means most of the people left on the planet are young teens or children, save for a few scientists that were underground at the CDC. 

I thought the age range of the kids was a little weird for such a heavy topic. They were dealing with stuff that seemed to be much more mature than their years. But they seemed to handle it well and I totally get how and why this worked. On the other hand, I kind of thought it was brilliant because puberty doesn't happen at the same time for everyone so it lends an unknown factor to the story. And there was enough "we don't understand" moments in there that you were reminded they were younger kids. I really became invested in the characters and wanted to see them survive. 

I would recommend this book to any dystopian fan or anyone interested in the genre. I give Night of the Purple Moon 4 out of 5 stars. Sooo worth the read! 

This leads me to some good news for you my dear followers and readers. There is a promo going on for a free download of Night of the Purple Moon!!! It'll be free on Amazon on Monday, September 10 and Tuesday, September 11. This is a great deal and good opportunity to read a GOOD book for FREE!  Free y'all!! I'll even leave you the link so there is no excuse not to take advantage of this!

US url: http://www.amazon.com/Night-Purple-Moon-ebook/dp/B007OVUPXU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1333803865&sr=1-1

UK url: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Purple-Moon-ebook/dp/B007OVUPXU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334839537&sr=8-1

Short Story Sunday: Unspeakable

Hello y'all! This is just a little post to let you know what's going on in Alli's World...AND of course discuss some good writing. First, I want to tell you that the hubs, some of my family members and myself spent a couple of days together on Tybee Island, Georgia (and did the tourist thing in Savannah as well) earlier this week. Which was completely lovely and just what we all needed. The only unfortunate thing is that I didn't get to read as much as I thought I would while we were there, just not enough time to do it all! 

Second, my work schedule changed and I'm on night shift now. I'm still trying to adjust to that and it has really put a damper on my reading for the time being. (If I'm trying to read so late at night it tends to just make me more sleepy and that is certainly not what I need!) So, please just hang in here with me and the next 16 weeks of night shift will fly by and then we will be back to our regularly scheduled Alli's World. Heck, who knows, I might adjust so well I might want to stay on nights, we'll just have to see. 


So this past week I haven't really read much in my current read, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, not because it's not good of course but see above, for the whole night shift makes me narcoleptic thing exploitation. Plus once I get all done with it I really want to share with you guys some things we saw in Sav that you can also read about in the book. It's going be great, trust me. Until then I'll just give you one glimpse at the beautiful "Hostess City" of the South. This is the fabulous fountain at Forsyth Park, complete with the Live Oaks dripping with Spanish Moss.

BUT until I finish Midnight and get my "photo tour" ready to go live on the blog, I've actually been reading some short stories this week I downloaded on my Kindle app for my phone. The first two, I'm not even going to mention cause they were just that bad. Finally today though, I read some quality stuff! YaY!! I downloaded it a week or two ago and finally got around to reading it and it left me wanting MORE!!!

Click the pic for more info!

(Amazon-which I do NOT get paid for, 

just so you know, I just do this cause

I love books!)

I've been hearing about S.R. Johannes' The Nature of Grace series and my interest was piqued. THEN, I saw Unspeakable a short story to the first book Untraceable was a free download on Amazon I simply had to give it a try. Ohmygosh y'all! Just based off the little bit in the short story, I reallllllly want to continue reading. The characters are witty and mysterious. (What ARE they doing in the woods!?) And it ends on a cliffhanger that has me hooked. I told the hubs I think he might enjoy this one (and hopefully the whole series) because it has this whole out in nature aspect to it. (Bless hubs heart, he gets roped into reading most of what I read...but a family that reads together, stays together, right??) Basically, even though I'm like 20 books down in my to-read stack I really want to move this one to the top! PLUS the next book in the series Uncontrollable is due out late summer 2012 and I saw the third book is scheduled for a Christmas 2012 release date!


By the way, S.R. Johannes is a GEORGIA author! YaY for local authors! This makes me super happy! Here's a link to her site so you find out more info about the author and the books!


Anybody out there reading anything good? Got any good summer fun times, you'd like to share? Leave me a comment. I HEART comments!